(iv.) Solecisms.—There are certain expressions in the Epistle which, so far as our knowledge of the language goes, appear to be contrary to usage. They are as follows >— :
α) βλιμμα (βλέμματι καὶ ἀπῇ, 25). Field (Notes on Trans, of
δ ἄσαξ λεγόμενον with
NT p. 241) writes thus: * In seeing and hearing. This seems to be the only admissible interpretation, though quite at variance with the use of βλέμμα in good writers... . δῖ re ter
should have written either épacu καὶ ἀπο OF δλίσων καὶ Amey
(δ) καυσοῦσϑα, (31912), It is pointed out that Dicscorides (6. 100 a.p.) and Galen (¢. 100 4.0 ), both medical writers, use the word in the sense of ‘to suffer from seiew, 4 ὁ remittent
fever.’ The word docs not appear to occur eleewhere, On the other hand, it must be noticed that Athenmus (see Sophocles, Lexicon) uses the cognate noun «ive of * burnt soll,’ and that Hesychius assigns to it the meaning of ‘a volcanic country
*In this list the LXX includes the Apocrypha. Words ar not included which are given under the next (111.} section.
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(c) μελλέσω (U9; »ὸ RABOP curs* Agyptt (boh sah), οὐκ ἀμιλήσω KL, etc., Syr-hkl). Field (i. p. 240) writes thus: ‘RV renders [usAgew) “1 shall be ready,” and Alford “I will be sure”; but no example of any such use of μμλλήσω is forthcom- ing. ... 1 think it not improbable that St. Peter wrote διὸ μελήσω, “1 will take care,” a rare but not unexampled con- struction for διὸ μελήσω {ee
(4) μνήμην ποιῦσθα, (115), The phrase is used from Herodotus onwards with the sense ‘to make mention of.’ In the passage quoted from Thucydides ii. δά (πρὸς ἃ ivacyor τὴν μνήμην ἐποιοῦντο), the expression signifies ‘they shaped their recollec- tions’ (cf. i. 140, πρὸς τὰς συμφορὰς τὰς γνώμας τριτομίνουτ). In Arist. Rhet. iii. 12. 4, μνήμην πεσοίνρμεεν means ‘he has made him famous’ (see Cope’s note). But no instance of the phrase in the sense be eapamayrg bes is eke aT tad
(e) Quy {τυφλός ἰστιν μυωπτάζων, 19). The passage quo for the verb from Arist. Probl. 81. 16. 25 ἄζειν λέσως αὶ οἱ ἐκ γινιτῆς τὰ μὲν ἐγγὺς βλίποντις, τὰ δὶ LE ἀποστάσιως οὐχ Sarre is not found in Bekker’s text. The adjective μύωψ, however, occurs several times in the e, as in Rhet. iii. 11. 12, in the technical sense ‘shortsighted,’ nor is it found with any other meaning. There seems to be no justification at all from usage for the opinion of those who, like Spitta (p. 73 ff.), take μυωπάζων in 2 P to imply ‘ wilful blindness,’ and so explain its position after τυφλός ier; nor is such a meaning natural. There can be little doubt that the writer of 2 P is here guilty of 8 rhetorical bathos.
() rapurgipuy (σπουδὴν πᾶσαν παριισινίγκαντες, 15). Wetstein quotes Jos. and Diod. for the phrase στουδὴν τῶσαν εἰσφέρειν. It must, however, be confessed that the RV ‘adding on your part’ is rather a benevolent paraphrase than a translation (rep«- in παραδοῦναι and similar words having the idea of transmission), and that it is difficult to assign any meaning which can be justi- fied by usage to the double compound. In 2! the similarly formed verb σαρωσάγειν is correctly and pertinently used (cf. Gal 24, Jude 4).
(9) σωρός (σειροῖς ζόφου, 24; 80 RABO Aug. al, σειραῖς KL, etc., boh Syr-hkl). Field (id. Ἢ 241) writes thus: ‘ esipés, σιρός, Or σιρρός, ‘*a pit,” or “ excavation,” properly for the storage of grain, as Demosth. p. 100, 28... . Philo, de Tel. Constr. p. 86... . And J. Pollux joins zaréyuei οἰκήσως, xa) σειροῖ, χαὶ φρίατα, καὶ λάκχοι. Alford wrongly translates ‘* dens,” and says: ‘* The word is used for a wolf's den by Longus i. 11”; but he can never have read the passage, in which the method of trapping a she-wolf is thus described : συνελθόντες οὖν οἱ χωμῆται νύχτωρ, σιρροὺς ὀρύττουσι τὸ εὖρος ὀργυιᾶς... ..' Here too, then, it seems probable that the author of 2 P has in the midst of a somewhat magnificent phrase interpolated a word with which a technical sense was commonly, if not exclusively, associated.*
(v.) We on to note a remarkable characteristic of the vocabulary of 2P, viz. its iteration. There are some words which must be repeated, whenever it is necessary to express dis- tinctly and briefly the idea which they connote (6.0. πίστις) ; and to this class some of the words in the following list may justly be thought to belong. But it is obvious that in the majority of cases there is no such justification. And it is best to give the list in full that this peculiarity of the Epistle may be clearly seen. It will be remarked (1) that some of the words and phrases repeated are in themselves unusual; (2) that they sometimes occur more than once within a very short space.
Words (or kindred words) and phrases repeated are—abeopeos 27 818; ἀποφεύγειν 14 218.205 ἀπώλεια 21dis.3 87.16; ἀσέλγεια 27, ἀσίλγειαι 23. 18. βίβαιος 110-19; διδωρημεένης 18, διδώρηται 14: δελεώ- ζων 214.18; ixwaras 33 355 ἱξακολουθεῖν 1162215 ; ἐπαγγελία 34.9, ἑπαχγίλλισθαι 219, ἐπάγγελμα 14 818, πάγειν 21.5; ἐπιχορηγεῖν 18-115 εὐσέβεια 18. 6. 1 Bll, ωὐσιβής 29, ᾿ἀσιβής 95 BT; ζόφος 24.17; ἡττᾶσθαι, QM; Byog 18-20 216.32 33.16.17; χαυσοῦσθαι 310.12 5 λανθάνων 35-85 λύεσθαι 810. 11.12.5 μωσθὸς ἀδικίας 213.15 ; μίασ᾽ 250, μμασμός 910; πάρεσειν 119, παρούσῃ 113. βιβαίαν. .. ποιεῖσθαι" ταῦτα γὰρ ποιοῦντες 110; προσδοχῶν 813: 18. ΤῊ σπουδάζων 110. 15. 314, σπουδή 19; στηριγμός 317, ἰστηριγμένους 112, deripizro¢ 214 $16 ; ταχινός 114 21; τηρεῖν (for future judgment) 249.17 37; τοῦτο sparver γινώσκοντις 12 335 ὑπομιμνήσχειν 112, διεγείρειν iv ὑπομνήσω 118 81 ἢ οὔκ ἐφείσατο 241. ; φωνὴ ἰνιχθῶσα 111. 18, ἠνέχθη προφητεία 131, φερόμενφι 121; φθείρειν 212, φθορά 14 212 (bts) ; φθέγγιεσθα, 216. 18,